In the story Pudd' nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, the main character is Tom Driscoll. Tom's original name was Valet de Chambre or Chambers for short, but after his mother Roxana or Roxy for short switches him as a baby with his half brother Tom Driscoll, he is known through the rest of the story as Tom. As Tom grows up he becomes mean and cruel. Tom would find himself in many situation of almost getting beat up until he makes his bodyguard Chambers fight for him. One time Tom told Chambers to fight and Chambers refused. As a result Tom cuts Chambers with a knife. When Tom is fifteen his father Percy Driscoll dies, and Tom goes to live with his uncle York Leicester Driscoll who is the Judge in Dawson's landing. The Judge who is childless decides to treat Tom just as if he were his own son. The Judge writes Tom into his will. Because Tom knows that he is in his uncle's will he repeatedly will go to St. Louis and gamble away the money that his uncle gives him. Because of Tom's gambling debts he resorts to petty thievery. When his uncle gets wond of his gambling and refusing to fight Luigi he tears up his will with Tom in it. The Judge will do this many times throughout the story, but will continually write Tom back into his will. Roxy after being freed by Percy when he died went and worked on a steamboat for a few years then decided to come back and find her son hoping that he had changed from the vile boy he used to be. She finds Tom and sees that he is just as bad as he use to be. Since Tom can't keep himself out of gambling debts, Roxy decides to help her son payback his debts by letting him sell her as a slave to a nice and generous family and after one year he would go back and buy her back out of slavery. But Tom being the evil man that he is sells her down the river to a mean cotton farmer. Tom needing more money goes to his uncle's house to steal any money that he has lying around. Tom sees his uncle's money box lying down with his money box next to him. Tom goes to get the box, but his uncle springs up and Tom stabbs him with a knife lying on the table. In the end Tom gets sentenced to life imprisonment and his true identity as the slave named Chambers is revealed. Since Tom is a slave he is given to creditors seeking payment on his father's old debts.
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